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" Live in the very soul of expectation of better things, in the conviction that something large, grand, and beautiful will await you if your efforts are intelligent, if your mind is kept in a creative condition and you struggle upward to your goal. "

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" Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action. "

Orison Swett Marden

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" History furnishes thousands of examples of men who have seized occasions to accomplish results deemed impossible by those less resolute. Prompt decision and whole-souled action sweep the world before them. "

" There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become. "

" Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do. Never for an instant harbor a doubt of it. "

" It is just as important to set apart time for the development of our aesthetic faculties as for cultivating the money-getting instinct. A man cannot live by bread alone. His higher life demands an impalpable food. "

" When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it. "

" The ability to cultivate friends is a powerful aid to success. It is capital which will stand by one when panics come, when banks fail, when business concerns go to the wall. "

" Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work. "

" Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. "

" It is the hopeful, buoyant, cheerful attitude of mind that wins. Optimism is a success builder; pessimism an achievement killer. "

" What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart? "

" The man who would forge to the front in this competitive age must be a man of prompt and determined decision. "

" What is needed by him who would succeed in the highest degree possible is careful planning. He is to accumulate reserved power, that he may be equal to all emergencies. "

" No one can make the most of himself until he looks upon his life as a magnificent possibility, the materials for a great masterpiece, to mar or spoil which would be a great tragedy. "

" Do not give up your dream because it is apparently not being realized, because you cannot see it coming true. Cling to your vision with all the tenacity you can muster. Keep it bright; do not let the bread-and-butter side of life cloud your ideal or dim it. "

" The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.' "

" By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities. "

" The man who practises unselfishness, who is genuinely interested in the welfare of others, who feels it a privilege to have the power to do a fellow-creature a kindness - even though polished manners and a gracious presence may be absent - will be an elevating influence wherever he goes. "

" Whoever uplifts civilization is rich though he die penniless, and future generations will erect his monument. "

" There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority. "

" Whatever you do, don't discourage your dreaming propensity. Your heart's desires are not empty vaporings. They foreshadow possible realities. Man was made to aspire, to look upward. "

" Economize in other things if you must, wear threadbare clothes if necessary, but never cheat your body or brain by the quality and quantity of your food. Poor, cheap food which produces low vitality and inferior brain force is the worst kind of economy. "

" He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives himself with his money; who opens the doors of opportunity widest to those about him; who is ears to the deaf, eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. "

" Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us. "

" The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty. "

" If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place. "

" The secret of success lies in that old word, 'Drudgery,' in doing one thing long after it ceases to be amusing; and it is 'this one thing I do' that gathers me together from my chaos, that concentrates me from possibilities to powers, and turns powers into achievements. "

Orison Swett Marden

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" We make the world we live in and shape our own environment. "

" There is no surer token of a little mind than to imagine that anything in the way of physical labor is dishonoring. "

" No man can stand still; the moment progress is not made, retrogression begins. If the blade is not kept sharp and bright, the law of rust will assert its claim. "